The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-19
GENERAL MEMS NOTES.

The Louisville and Nashville strikers
have given up their contest.
At Pittsburg, Pa. yesterday two boys
named Smith and NIcrtz were killed while
coas!!ag.
\ Birmingham, Ala. mass meeting has
condemned the Reagan Interstate Com
mcrcc bill
Many stage coaches are blockadel by
S;!rw in Western Montana ard numerous
casualties arc reported.
Il was falsely reported in New York
yesterday that Mayor Hewitt was dead
He has been indisposed, but is GONZALES
cling.
The Nevada Legislature yesterday elected
VIM. NJ Stewart United States Senator by
i vote Of 46 out of &C.
An official circular has been issued pro
hibiting the importation and circulation Of
Russian troubles in Easter Roumeiia.
The Catawba river was frozen from bank
to bank at Cureton's ferry on Saturday
last.
Mr.. George W. Childs, Of the Philadcl-
phia Ledger, was slightly hurt Friday by
slipping on the ice.
4 collision or the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad wrecked both trains and severely
Injured three persons, all railroad en-
pioyeS.
There We're three railroad wrecks re-
ported yesterday: one near Attica. \. y.
and two others on the Erie road near Mid
dlctown, \. y.
How, T,,>.s To o1.co,, (.L;oc I,...:., of
Georgia, died yesterday evening at clock,
aged g.. He was in Congress before the
war, and has held many judicial positions.
San Francisco was rocked from east to
west 1T eight minutes after six Tuesday
morning by an earthquake, which lasted
seven seconds. No damage was done.
A riotous demonstration of the strikers
at Newport News late last night has caused
the ordering of troops to the scene The
military We're en- route after midnight
Thursday evening, at Omidividi Lake,
near ST Johns, n. F., . number of persons
fell through the ice, and two of them,
named Whitten and Brien, were drowned.
D. F. Haynes & Co.. proprietor of the
Chesapeake Pottery. made an assignment
to John P Ammidon for the benefit Of
creditors. The bond of the trustee is 500,
900.
Winchester, Va, has had the coldest
weather Of the winter for the last two days.
The thermometer indicated at sunrise yes
terday morning two degrees below zero.
The boiling Democrats in the New Jer-
sey Legislature have gone over to the Re-
publicans Present indications are that the
Democrats will lose the United States Sen
atorship.
The bill for the erection of public
building in Charleston has passed the
House, amended so as to fix the amount at
$30O,O for building and grounds.
In answer 10 inquiries from the East,
Governor Ireland of Texas has written that
the distress continues and endorses the ap-
peals to the country fo1 assistance.
\ New York Southern Society has just
been organized, similar in its purpose to
the New England Society A dinner will be
given soon, at which Henry W. Grady and
Henry Watterson will make speeches.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, has
decided that sleeping Car companies are re-
sponSiblc for losses sustained by passengers
in the case of properly such as person
may reasonably carry.
Serious charges are made against State
AuIitor Walker of Missouri. One is that
he forced clerk in his employ to pay him
so month from his salary, by threat Of
dismissal
James Miller. farmer, and Abel Camp
bell, q lahorer, while crossing the track of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in a sleigh
near Charlestown, W. Va, yesterday. were
struck by the south bound train and both
instantly killed.
An Osyka, La, special says: Ike Brum
field, colored, was hanged by an unknown
mob Saturday night The body was found
on Sunday. The negro resided across the
State line. The cause Of the hanging has
not transpired.
\ bill has been introduced in Congress
to pay to Mrs. Eloise E. Luquer, Of Beau
ford, n. Y, as the heir of John Howard
Payne, the author of Home, Sweet
Home" the salary of the author as United
States consul at Tunis. The bill is cx-
pected to pass.
The Rev. l. c. Nentzel, OF Trinity Luth-
eran Church, Oshkosh, Wis, has created :,
sensation by preaching that Knights of La
oor, continuing in organization, would be
expelled from the church The knights
are indignant, and will withdraw from
Trinity.
Prof. Ferdinand v Hayden, an eminent
seologist of the United States Geological
survey, has resigned, owing, he says, to
continued ill-heallb, with no prospect of
nnrr, mont rncoyerv Prof Hov5eN * tlo
ioUldcr OF the United States Geological
Survey Of the Territories.
The London Liberal Radical Union had
q great meeting recently. God Save the
Q3ecn' was Missed down BradlauSh was
a prominent figure Every mention OF
Gladstone's name received applause. The
government was characterized as an old
pamp, with the handle broken oil.
According to signal service reports Chi
cago was tie coolest place in the United
States Monday night. At3o'clock that after
noon the thermometer registered one de-
gree above, and at nine o'clock the same
night it had fallen to ten degrees, and two
hours later it registered II degrees below.
The steamer D. L. Talley, Of Mobile,
struck snag yesterday afternoon, ten
miles above Demopo!is. Ala, on the Tom
Bigbec river and sank in six Ee3t of water.
She lies so as to block the channel ie the
present stage of the water and two boats
arc there6y detained above. There is a
possibility OF raising her. Her value is
$50, 900. No Insurance..
The Republicans forced things in the In
diana Legislature Monday. The Senate,
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